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1 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 Utah Quality Growth Commission Annual Report November 14, 2012 Bear Lake Gateway Project Phases 1-3, 2010-2012 Slide 2 2 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 Table of Contents: History of the Quality Growth Commission.Page 3 Quality Growth Commission Membership...................Page 3 Advise and assist local governments Reports on local Quality Growth Planning efforts..Page 3 Wasatch Choice for 2040.Page 4 Unified Transportation Plan.Page 4 Opening of City Creek Center.Page 5 Technical Assistance for Local Planning..Page 6 LeRay McAllister Conservation Program...Page 7 Appendix 1McAllister Program One Pager...Page 8 Appendix 2Summary of McAllister Program Projects, CY 1999-2012Page 10 Sego Lilly, Dry Lakes Ranch, Iron County Slide 3 3 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 History of the Quality Growth Commission The Quality Growth Commission was created in 1999 by the Quality Growth Act. It has three responsibilities: 1.Advise the Governor and the Legislature on Growth issues. 2.Assist Local Governments with Quality Growth Planning 3.Conserve Critical Lands by administering the LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Fund. 2012 marks the thirteenth anniversary of the Quality Growth Commission and the LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Fund. Quality Growth Commission Membership David Mansell, Utah Reators Association, Chair Holly Daines, Logan City Council, Vice Chair Mike Styler, Utah Department of Natural Resources Leonard Blackham, Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Soren Simonsen, Salt Lake City Council Mike Butwinski, Park City Council Sally Elliott, Summit County Council Mike Kohler, Wasatch County Council Larry Ellertsen, Utah County Commissioner Flint Richards, Utah Farm Bureau Brent Tanner, Utah Cattlemens Association Roger Wynn, Utah Home Builders Association Reed Erickson, Iron County, member at large Advise and Assist The Quality Growth Act Utah Code 11-38-202, requires the Commission to report annually to the Political Subdivisions interim Committee on the state of Quality Growth in Utah. This report fulfills that requirement. The first part of this report will address some of the exciting activities related to Quality Growth that are occurring Utah right now. Local Government Planning Efforts: There are several important local, and regional planning efforts currently underway in Utah. Utah State Capitol, Photo by John Bennett The Utah Quality Growth Commission has 13 members representing a diverse group of interests from agriculture, to home building to local governments. It has a state wide focus. Slide 4 4 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 Wasatch Choice for 2040 HUD Grant: Several years ago, the Wasatch Front Regional Council and the Mountainland Association Governments adopted the Wasatch Choice for 2040. This is a regional community vision that was supported by thousands of Utahns. In 2011, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a $5 million grant to Salt Lake County, WFRC, Mountainland AOG and many other partners to create a consortium to implement the Wasatch Choice for 2040 Vision. This effort includes creating innovative tools to track development costs and do scenarios planning as well as implementing these tools at Catalytic Sites to demonstrate their use various situations. This HUD grant is in its second year, and the tools and demonstration projects should be completed in 2013. For more information about Wasatch Choice for 2040, go here: http://www.wasatchchoice2040.com http://www.wasatchchoice2040.com Unified Transportation Plan: The Unified Transportation Plan is an effort to unify transportation planning across the state. The Utah Department of Transportation, and all of the Metropolitan Planning organizations, Mountainland Association of Governments, Wasatch Front Regional Council, Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization, and Five County Association of Governments have all met together to coordinate transportation planning and funding decisions. This is first time this unified planning approach has been used anywhere in the United States. For more information about the Unified Transportation Plan go here: http://www.mountainland.org/site/articles/view/1283http://www.mountainland.org/site/articles/view/1283 This Choice focuses growth in activity centers located on our freeways, rail lines and boulevards. New transportation investments will serve these activity centers, areas of growth, and our regions special districts like the airports and the universities. Killyon Canyon Project, 2009 Slide 5 5 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 City Creek Center: The City Creek Center is a mixed use, transit oriented development in downtown Salt Lake City. It is one of the largest transit oriented developments in the United States. It brings together hundreds and apartments and condominiums with offices, and retail shopping opportunities, all located along the light rail line in Salt Lake City. City Creek has received numerous design awards, both locally and nationally, and is a prime example of how Quality Growth Principles can be implemented in Utah. City Creek Center looking towards the Salt Lake LDS temple, photo by John Bennett City Creek Center is the centerpiece of one of the nation's largest mixed-use downtown redevelopment projects. This unique shopping center features a retractable glass roof, a creek that runs through the property, a pedestrian skybridge and over 100 stores and restaurants in a casual, pedestrian- friendly environment. City Creek Center Fountain Slide 6 6 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 Technical Assistance to Local Government Provide tools to local governments: The Quality Growth Act requires the Commission to provide technical assistance to local governments to assist them with Quality Growth Planning. At one time, the Legislature appropriated funds to the Commission to provide planning grants to assist local governments. In recent years, the Commission has provided this technical assistance in the form of planning tools that local governments can use to assist them in fulfilling their planning responsibilities. The Commission and GOPB Planning section have created several popular planning tools. These include: Rural Character Toolkit Land Use Ordinance Library Critical Lands Planning Toolkit, and others. In addition, other state agencies have created tools that can be excellent planning resources. These include the Mapserve.Utah.Gov site which contains a local planning area where local governments can easily access all the geographic information maintained by the state. This information is available in a format that allows a local government to use the data even if they lack GIS capability. SUPER TOOL All of these tools are being linked together at a single portal called SUPER ToolState of Utah Planning and Education Resource. If you would like to access SUPER it is available here: www.planning.utah.gov/super. SUPER also includes some innovative tools created by universities in Utah as well as free software programs that allow manipulation of data and graphicswww.planning.utah.gov/super New tools: We are currently working on expanding the SUPER Tool to include a section on Planning for Agriculture, and Planning for Air Quality. These tools should be added to the SUPER Tool in early 2013 First Principle Local Responsibility: Local governments are responsible for planning and land use decisions in their own jurisdictions in coordination and cooperation with other government entities. Second Principle State Leadership: The States role is to provide planning assistance, technical assistance, information and incentives for local governments to coordinate and cooperate in the management of growth. Principles of Quality Growth the Utah Quality Growth Commission Slide 7 7 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report November 14, 2012 LeRay McAllister Conservation Program What is the LeRay McAllister Program? The LeRay McAllister Critical Land Conservation Fund was established by the Utah Quality Growth Act of 1999. It provides grants to local governments, state agencies and non-profit organizations to conserve, or restore, important agricultural lands, wildlife habitat, watershed, recreational lands, and culturally or historically important lands. The fund is administered by the Utah Quality Growth Commission. Staff for the Commission and the fund is provided by the Governors Office of Planning and Budget (GOPB). What has it done? Since CY 1999 the Commission has approved 92 projects to conserve or restore more than 84,000 acres of Utahs critical lands. In that time, it spent about $21 million from the LeRay McAllister Fund. This amount was matched by about $174 million from local, state and Federal governments, and private donations, nearly a 9:1 ratio. These grants have been made in 19 of Utahs 29 counties. For more information about the conservation work of the Utah Quality Growth Commission see Appendix 1, and 2. The Commission has not received an appropriation to the McAllister Program for the past two years. We are currently evaluating applications for the last of our carry over funds. Without a appropriation in the 2013 Legislature, the Commission will not be able to make any additional conservation grants. Why do we need the LeRay McAllister Program? Appendix 1 contains a spreadsheet detailing all of the projects currently completed or approved by the Commission. As you can see from the attached spreadsheet, the McAllister Program funds play a key role in accessing millions of dollars in Federal, Local and Private funding that makes conservation in Utah possible. Without the McAllister Program funds, protecting critical agricultural lands, watersheds, wildlife habitats and providing public access to our critical lands would be far more difficult. Without the McAllister Program funds, protecting critical agricultural lands, watersheds, wildlife habitats and providing public access to our critical lands would be far more difficult. Despain Ranch, Utah County Slide 8 8 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report Appendix 1 November 14, 2012 LeRay McAllister Fund One Pager East Zion Ranch, Kane County Slide 9 10 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report Appendix 2 November 14, 2012 Summary LeRay McAllister fund Projects, CY 1999 to 2012 Osguthorpe Round Valley Ranch, Summit County Slide 10 16 Quality Growth Commission 2012 Report Appendix 3 November 14, 2012 Principles of Quality Growth as adopted by the Utah Quality Growth Commission Utah Botanical Center, Davis County